Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agoWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?message-squaremessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down143file-text
arrow-up168arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't the whole planet just use UTC+00:00 / Universal Time without time zones?Pro@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square172fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareyesman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down7·23 days agoThis is exactly right. People don’t wan to change, even if the new way is demonstrably superior. Look at the adoption of the Metric system in England and the (almost) adoption in the US.
minus-squarecattywampas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·23 days agoUTC isn’t even demonstrably superior.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-223 days ago and the (almost) adoption in the US. For example: 1 bushel is exactly 64 dry pints. 1 dry pint is exactly 107521/92400 liquid pints. 1 liquid pint is exactly 231/8 cubic inches. We formally defined the inch in terms of the metric system in the 1950s as being precisely 2.54 centimeters. Thus making the bushel exactly 220244188543/6250000 cubic centimeters.¹ ¹ Unless you’re talking about an oat bushel, a barley bushel, a wheat bushel, or a few other exceptions.
This is exactly right. People don’t wan to change, even if the new way is demonstrably superior. Look at the adoption of the Metric system in England and the (almost) adoption in the US.
UTC isn’t even demonstrably superior.
For example:
1 bushel is exactly 64 dry pints.
1 dry pint is exactly 107521/92400 liquid pints.
1 liquid pint is exactly 231/8 cubic inches.
We formally defined the inch in terms of the metric system in the 1950s as being precisely 2.54 centimeters.
Thus making the bushel exactly 220244188543/6250000 cubic centimeters.¹
¹ Unless you’re talking about an oat bushel, a barley bushel, a wheat bushel, or a few other exceptions.